--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "guyfawkes91" <guyfawke...@...> wrote: > > > And that the soul incarnates > > into bodies of both genders is also commonly understood. {Even the > > Hindu gods are found in the literature to have occasionally changed > > gender.] > > > The most interesting take on this one in Hindu/Vedic literature is a > story in the Yoga Vashista. A king and queen decide to get into > spiritual pursuits and the queen gets to UC pretty quick. The king > will have nothing of it and wanders off into the forest for a few > decades of austerities. A few decades later the queen reckons he might > be ready for some instruction, but knowing he won't listen to a woman, > she disguises herself as a celibate monk. After some detailed > instruction on what's what he gets enlightened, and then the queen > starts thinking, "hold on this guy is my husband and we haven't had it > for years" So she goes through a big rigmarole of changing sex every > night so the king can hump the celibate monk he's met in the forest, > while in UC. Real soap opera stuff and calculated to break the > boundaries of people who think in conventional ways about what's > spiritual. >
Not the Rig Veda. Not the Sama Veda. It's the Larry Flynt Veda, wrapped in brown paper and available at the back of your local newsstand.